Trump Corruption

Trump Loses Final Bid To Dismiss Colorado Ballot Suit

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has lost his final bid to stop a Colorado lawsuit that could see him kicked off the ballot for the 2024 presidential election. A judge in the state has ruled that the lawsuit brought to block the one-term president from the ballot next year can go ahead next week. Mr Trump had asked for the …

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Plea Deals Discussed For 6 More Trump Co-Defendants

CNN reports: Fulton County prosecutors have discussed potential plea deals with at least six additional co-defendants charged alongside Donald Trump for attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election, multiple sources tell CNN. The strategy by District Attorney Fani Willis’ office is clear: get as many co-defendants as possible to flip on the former president, leaving Trump and perhaps a few …

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Trump Storms Out Of Court After Losing Dismissal Bid

Courthouse News reports: Feuding lawyers in Donald Trump’s Manhattan fraud trial erupted in multiple vicious shouting matches on Wednesday during the testimony of Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-lawyer-turned-enemy who testified that Trump directed him to commit fraud on his financial statements. The most dramatic day in court thus far culminated in Trump storming out of the courtroom after Judge Arthur Engoron …

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Trump Fined $10,000 For Second Gag Order Violation

The Guardian reports: Judge Arthur Engoron has fined Trump $10,000 after holding a brief hearing in which he called the ex-president to testify about his possible violation of a gag order this morning. Engoron previously ordered Trump not to make disparaging comments about his staff; in commentary this morning, Trump appeared to make one such statement about Engoron’s law clerk. …

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Judge: Trump Again “Blatantly Disobeyed” Gag Order

The Meidas Touch reports: During the morning recess of his fraud trial in NY today, Donald Trump violated the limited gag order imposed upon him for the second time. Trump told the press gathered in the courthouse that the judge was going to find him guilty, “because this judge is a very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan …

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Trump: Biden Will Pay Once I Again “Assume Office”

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: I will soon be leaving for Crooked Joe Biden’s “Political Opponent Court” in Lower Manhattan. I have a very partisan and angry Judge, a Corrupt Attorney General, and am not allowed a Jury Trial under the Statute they have chosen to use (for the very first time ever!). The good news, that …

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Trump Wants Riot Mentions Stricken From Jan 6 Case

The Messenger reports: In a pair of court filings over the past week, Donald Trump and a prominent 2020 election attorney expressed a common fear: Mentioning the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in their court cases would so inflame passions that it would rob them of the ability to be judged impartially by a jury of their peers. Just before …

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Raging Trump Suggests Meadows Will Lie About Him

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: I don’t think Mark Meadows would lie about the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election merely for getting IMMUNITY against Prosecution (PERSECUTION!) by Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith. BUT, when you really think about it, after being hounded like a dog for three years, told you’ll be going to jail for the rest …

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Red-Faced Trump Glowered At Cohen In NYC Court

Politico reports: As Cohen delivered that testimony, Trump, who was seated at the defense table, grew red in the face and shook his head. Trump didn’t look at Cohen as he entered the courtroom, but as Cohen spoke on the witness stand, Trump trained his eyes on him and either crossed his arms or leaned forward over the defense table. …

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ABC: Mark Meadows Granted Immunity, Flips On Trump

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath. The sources said Meadows informed Smith’s team that he repeatedly …

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Cohen Testifies: Trump Ordered Me To Cook The Books

The Messenger reports: “I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen alleged. “And my responsibility, along with Allen Weisselberg, predominantly, was the reverse-engineer the various asset classes — increase those assets to achieve the number that Mr. Trump asked us.” Asked which number, Cohen responded: “Whatever Mr. Trump …

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Trump Loses Bid To Delay Trial Over COVID Exposure

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal team was denied on Tuesday when they sought to delay the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York over concerns related to Covid-19 in the courtroom. Trump is currently on trial in New York City to determine the penalties related to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil suit against Trump, his …

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Trump Lawyers Argue Free Speech In January 6 Case

The Messenger reports: In a flurry of court filings Monday night, former President Donald Trump argued the federal charges against him in Washington, D.C., are being brought by “biased prosecutors” and should be dismissed on various grounds. In a series of four filings, Trump’s attorneys argued the charges against him should be dismissed on constitutional grounds including First Amendment protections, …

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Trump: Ban Immigrants Who “Don’t Like Our Religion”

“They want to come in, they want to bring the same people that are shooting rockets at Israel, they want to come into the United States. I don’t think a lot of good things are going to happen. And I will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants. If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you …

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Trump Lies: We Had No Terror Attacks During My Term

A fact check from CNN’s indefatigable Daniel Dale: Trump’s claim that “we didn’t have an attack for four years” isn’t true. The claim is inaccurate even if he was referring specifically to attacks by Islamic extremists. Trump’s own DOJ alleged that a mass murder in New York City in 2017, which killed eight people and injured others, was a terrorist …

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Trump: “This Is All Biden, I Was Never Indicted”

“We did nothing wrong. This is all Biden, indictments and impeachments and this is all about Biden, he can’t do anything right. The only thing they know how to do is cheat in elections and election fraud. This is all by himself. All of these indictments that you see. I was never indicted. Practically never heard the word. It wasn’t …

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Trump Praises Viktor Orban, “The Leader Of Turkey”

First, this from the Associated Press: Former President Donald Trump signed up for the New Hampshire presidential primary on Monday, becoming the first person who has served as president to file such paperwork in person more than once. “Vote for Trump and solve your problems,” he wrote on the commemorative poster all the candidates are asked to sign. Also new …

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Trump To Claim Immunity In E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit

ABC News reports: Attorneys for former President Donald Trump will ask a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings that have kept alive writer E. Jean Carroll’s 2019 defamation lawsuit against him. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in July declined to dismiss Carroll’s case and limited some of Trump’s defenses. A trial is scheduled for January. The judge has …

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Trump’s NY Fraud Trial Delayed Over COVID Exposures

ABC News reports: Former President Trump’s civil fraud trial is adjourned until Tuesday due to COVID-19 exposures, the New York attorney general’s office has announced. Officials did not say who had been exposed or when. Trump attended the trial on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week and said on Wednesday that he could return to court for the testimony of …

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Trump Again Attacks NY Judge Despite Gag Order

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: In the Fake Biden Inspired Fraud Case against me, brought by the CORRUPT A.G., Letitia “Peekaboo” James of New York State, a sadly Crime Infested Place, where people and businesses are fleeing to other States in record numbers, it is her and the highly partisan Judge, who has been overturned many times, …

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